Brown Paper Bag

Roni Size, credited as Williams, wrote "Brown Paper Bag", track two of disc one of New Forms, 9:03. The single came out on October 27, 1997 on Talkin' Loud and reached 20 on the Official Singles Chart on November 15, 1997 and 2 on the Official Dance Singles Chart over ten weeks, the group's highest-charting single; it re-entered the sales and download charts in July 2024. Onallee is credited with the vocals, and Wikipedia says her call in the track is a signal ravers still respond to. Size told Metro Times, as a search snippet quotes it, that they recreated rather than sampled, wanting our own bass riffs rather than sampling the whole length of James Brown, and the bass lifts the track out of the lilting break after Dynamite MC's turn it upside down. He told Mixmag and the Guardian in 2018 that the band recreated the parts they liked at raves, and mxdwn notes acoustic guitar samples on the track. DJ Mag made a making-of video on its double bass line.

Setlist.fm lists about 159 Roni Size setlists, and it is the most played song with only 3 plays, the earliest year 1995 and the latest September 2, 2026 in Portland. A Peel wiki page reportedly lists it at Glastonbury on June 28, 1998, which we could not verify. We found no meaning for the title, no covers or samples, and could not tell which mix our upload is.